Support for Alternative Layouts
This is a summary of how alternative layouts have been supported by kits such as Colevrak and Homing. It is not a discussion of alt layout performance and development, but if that interests you I highly recommend starting with Pascal Getreuer’s A guide to alt keyboard layouts (why, how, which one?). It’s a concise and comprehensive overview with links to some great sites that go deeper. He also has a separate Links about keyboards page. The Keyboard layouts doc he recommends explains layout goals and metrics in detail, summarizing the alt layouts discussed here as well as more than one hundred others. Sculpted-profile The majority of custom keycap sets are sculpted-profile (Cherry, SA, MT3, KAT, etc. - more on profiles generally here) so let’s start there. Because each row has a unique keycap shape, alt layouts require a unique keycap for each legend that moves off its QWERTY row. At first there were two The Dvorak layout was patented in 1936 by August Dvorak & William L....
Apr 23, 2024
Thank you for all your feedback. A lot of you have expressed your dissatisfaction with this drop in the discussion and in private messages to us. After a lot of deliberation and input from other members of the Mech Keys team (Brian, Yanbo, Alex, and Kunal), we’ve decided to close this drop.
We take the comments and context given to us by the community extremely seriously. In this case, there are significant outstanding issues and we’ve decided to close the drop. This does not necessarily mean that we would not work with them in the future. Once the vendor makes right on their existing promises to the community and has earned the goodwill of its members, we would be happy to work with them at that time.
I can’t thank you guys enough for being vigilant and keeping us honest. We always love the feedback and the checks and balances that you all provide.
Lastly, for everyone who joined this drop, we’ll work on getting other similar products to you soon.
Ill just leave it at that.
Best wishes to all involved, including Sprit. You can still make good and improve your standings in the community.
Really, I feel a little bad getting so angry with this whole situation, so apologies if I came off a little harsh, or as some sort of self-anointed police of the Keyboard Community(tm)
It just gets frustrating watching when a business that has fleeced you appears to get support. And my order is small compared to others, so I can only imagine.
Anyway, be careful of the dog. She gets too excited sometimes and nibbles on noses.